OASIS: Finding the Article

Finding the Article

Once you have decided which articles are relevant to your topic, you need to locate the periodicals in which the articles appear.

First, you would look at the citation and identify the full title of the periodical, the volume number, issue number and the publication date for each article. This is necessary whether you have located the articles using a print index or using an electronic database (covered in Chapter 3).

A typical citation to an article

AUTHOR: Kidger, Neville.
TITLE: NASA science comes to Mir. (accounts from American astronaut Shannon Lucid)
SOURCE: Spaceflight 38, 4 (Sept. '96) p. 294-5

The TITLE field refers to the title of the article not the title of the periodical.

The SOURCE field will usually list the title of the periodical, in this case, Spaceflight. The numbers 38 and 4 refer to Volume 38, Issue 4. (many times only the numbers will be written while the words volume and issue may not be written)

p. 294-5 means that the article is on pages 294 through 295

Then, you would check the library's WebLUIS Online Catalog using the Journal/Magazine Title access point and typing in the title of the periodical, in this case, Spaceflight, to find out if our library owns the periodical and the particular issue you have identified.

Finally, you would go to the section of the library where periodicals are shelved and retrieve the article directly from the particular issue of Spaceflight.

[rotating photos of periodicals stacks from BB and UP campuses]

Current and back periodicals areas - Biscayne Bay campus library on 2nd Floor;
periodicals area - University Park campus, Green Library, on 3rd Floor